Othello AO5!!! Flashcards
McCulloch: What hurts Othello far more than losing Desdemona….
(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)
is losing the equanimity he needs to do his job
McCulloch: Othello is at war….
(Othello as a tragedy,characterisation)
with himself and cannot win
Wheale: Observing a tragic event chills us with shock…
(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)
and moves us with compassionate pity, making us realise the fragility and vulnerability of human life
Greer: The story of us all…
(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)
the weakness inherent within every human being.
Wheale: The play provides the focus for the …
(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)
most powerful male motivation of renaissance tragedy - revenge.
Ryan: Shakespeare produced in Othello a searing critique of….
(Race and Gender)
racial and sexual injustice, which is more powerful now in the 21st century than it ever could have been at the dawn of the 17th
Ryan: Othello’s vulnerability as a black outsider
(Race and Gender)
who unconsciously shares the white perception of his blackness
Loomba: Othello is both a
(Race and Gender)
fantasy of interracial love and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence
Loomba: Othello’s is a victim of racial beliefs because
(Race and Gender)
he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones
Bradley: Othello does not
(Race and Gender)
belong to our world
Block: Shakespeare frequently uses prose…capturing the way soldiers… tend to
(Masculinity and identity)
hide their true feelings behind a mask of witty worldly toughness
Jardine: A stereotype of….
(Desdemona)
female passivity
Newman: Iago is culturally
(Iago)
diabolical
Honingman: Iago enjoys a
(Iago)
god like sense of power
Wendel: Emilia is a symbol of
(Emilia, gender)
defiance
Honingman: Despite his cleverness Iago has never felt
(Iago)
spiritual impulses that bind humans together, in a word love.
Ryan: He’s pathologically normal and
(Iago)
theatrically irresistible
Greer: They don’t go home hoping that they won’t meet an Iago but…
(Iago)
understanding something of the nature of evil
Hadfield: Venice a….
(setting)
critical utopian space
Lacan: Every individual experiences self-alienation due to their perception of themselves…
(proximity, isolation and distance)
this self isolation may be observed in Othello’s character.
Hatchuel: constructions of humans in peripheral space were emeshed in discourse…
based on the fear of difference and impulses to dominate
AC Bradley tragedy is “essentially a tale of ……
vs
Nutall “oxymoronic tragic joy ….
- suffering and calamity conducting to death
- conveys a much stronger response from the audience
kastan “genre of
uncompensated suffering
kastan “absence of clear answers
to these question is central to Shakespearean tragedy
